the algerian hostage crisis fatalities are expected to rise while it's suggested that france's mali intervention which provoked a terrorist attack is actually a resource grabbing operation. hundreds of friends and supporters of internet freedom activist aaron swartz gathered for his memorial with his family maintaining the computer prodigy was driven to suicide by prosecutors and the looming trial against him. and pakistan agrees to dissolve parliament in the face of protest over corruption in the capital.

from our studios in moscow you're watching r t with me and use in our way our top story algeria due to release the final number of hostages killed in the terrorist siege on a remote gas plant with the figure expected to rise above twenty three a number of foreign civilians were among those killed when algerian forces stormed the site seized by islamic militants in revenge for the french intervention in neighboring mali and there are increasing fears the military campaign could backfire on paris well some say analysts while some analysts i should say say there's more than meets the eye as polly boyd now reports. but there will be studied terrorism was about to overwhelm the friendly country the terrorism that threatens not just all of west africa but also the entire world. he's vowed that

france won't stop its intervention in mali until islamic extremism in the country is stamped out the military has announced that it's going to be sending more troops but the total set to exceed two hundred thousand it's the stated goal to help the government in bamako drive out his list insurgents before the francois alarms talk of freedom and democracy critics say the french government you see as a for the military offensive could be linked to other elements u.a.d. of these fronts. many people say it's a huge cost as it's a huge factor in its economy and it's something that not only mali but specifically niger and other amazing parts where the tourist people reside. sits on top of almost every single light bulb in france runs on electricity generated by nuclear power power relies on a steady flow of pure rainy i'm so you don't have to be a nuclear physicist to figure out that to keep all these bright lights on the

french government depends on a steady flow of the precious natural resource but molly says micio learned is no it's about power or money. and security this is nothing to do with any political issue from a different time if we are defending a government or business interests which government which business. some have their suspicions nationally supported approach energy company. is about to finish the second largest ukrainian mining plant in the world next to mali every year the cars do exactly this uranium is going to be dirt cheap there's a third world dirt cheap. very true. very very interesting and after the french military offensive purported to spark a deadly hostage crisis in algeria light bulbs are beginning to go off in the heads

of ordinary citizens to pull out almost. i'm for intervention if it is to fight terrorism but it's got to be for good reasons not of it's for raw materials that are in mali gas oil diamonds and gold already. more prefer they don't think about democracy well we have made paris a huge target and fronts a target for terrorism. at least but with the prospect of an untapped natural resources needed to keep fronts eliminated political analysts say that first promise to stop playing big brother to former colonies isn't going to be fulfilled anytime soon playboy can see paris. let's not get some reaction from journalist and broadcaster neil clark joining us live from the u.k. thanks for being with us this sunday the usa is there again the u.k.

is aiding this french campaign in mali with supplies and several british hostages if we've been were as we've been reporting have now been killed in algeria how concerned do you think are the british public and politicians about the ramifications of this involvement well i think the public is very concerned and he said because what's happened here is that david cameron who spent most of last year cheering on islamist rebels in syria has now taken the line that islamist rebels in mali of the biggest dangers to the world we must intervene must help france regardless of the consequences just britain and i think it's a very misguided policy unfortunately the political elite in britain seem to be all behind his policy which is very disturbing but i think the public speaking for the public i think we're very concerned about what's going on. ok well let's break down why it's going on what's in this for the u.k. what is london looking to gain from this support for france well it's very interesting isn't it because if we think back to twenty eleven it was david cameron and william hague people like this who were the loudest most aggressive cheerleaders for the deposing of colonel gadhafi who was the biggest who work

against al-qaeda in northern africa and now the very same people cameron in the hague are the ones saying we've got to get in involved in the mali operation to put down al qaeda groups there and so there is a really consistency here real hypocrisy you know why is fighting al-qaeda africa is is not the biggest cause why should we play such an active role in toppling of the one leader in northern africa who actually was it was a form of against al-qaeda and sort of what's in it for britain i think that what's happening and he said is that this threat is being used as a smokescreen for the recall of my ization along in africa by nato forces by products britain the us do you think that's why we're seeing the ignoring of the rise of al-qaeda or say in syria. absolutely because of course one of the biggest myths in international relations is that the western powers are implacably opposed to ok the last twenty thirty years and not what they will use they will use the ok to threaten some circumstances intervening a great country like afghanistan but elsewhere they would actually. militants to

actually topple check you know regimes like the one in syria and in libya and so what it's going to frankenstein's monster and of course we'll get back to afghanistan in the one nine hundred eighty s. and ok radical islamic groups were used by the west to help tackle the red army from afghanistan to help them if the red army in afghanistan and that's all part of the policy i think you mentioned that you think that these are part of a bigger picture about the real colonization of africa how far do you think the british involvement will go in terms of mali as we're seeing so far what i fear we're going to be dragged more into it because last week david cameron was telling us that we just cannot allow islamist to take power in march and he can't tell about going to few days later and say well it doesn't really matter if it's a mistake our in mali so he sort of talked yourself into a corner on this one by digging up the situation so i very much fear i mean the neo cons haven't got their war against syria they're diminishing in syria so now it seems as if we're all sort of got to sort of support this intervention against

mardy it's interesting they're kind of slowly moving from north africa to just africa i think it's fair to say just briefly africa of course has untapped natural resources there's no secret there which countries appear most interested do you think in securing those possible resources expanding their interests and do you think we could see any possible conflicts of interest between western countries. very possibly because i think obviously france from your hans point of view the economy is a very bad state in grants and i think he's hoping that a successful intervention in mali will boost his popularity ratings back home it will be well documented the issue of how france needs uranium that allow is of the good use of uranium so there are resources there so i think france is a very clear economic reasons and i think economic reasons are high and every single western intervention of the last thirty years if we look back at yugoslavia attack on yugoslavia the attacks on syria the libya war all these were

dressed up as humanitarian interventions but they're not they're economic interventions and the west wants resources the west wants to get control of resources in this region and i think nato is going to relocate to north africa that's clearly what this is all about the al qaeda threat has been big up in order when nato leaves are going to start if we look at all africa we certainly will be watching closely as will you i expect neil clark journalist and broadcaster live with us on the line from the u.k. thanks for that here's an easter thank you. hundreds of people have gathered in new york to pay their respects to aaron swartz an online freedom activist who hanged himself last week the twenty six year old computer prodigy suicide tema head of his trial for cyber crimes which could have resulted in him spending decades behind bars and this week federal prosecutors dropped the charges against swartz and his family and friends blame the government for his death as the turkana reports. the crime downloading millions of academic papers in the public domain

from a paid subscription database and the believe that they should be free. to essentially rocking out too many books in the library the punishment facing thirty years behind bars and a million dollar fine you're looking at a crime that essentially amounts to download a p.d.f. to a hard drive. no person was harmed. there was no financial benefit murder received less punishment the result twenty six year old web wizard aaron swartz takes his own life the idea that he was facing decades in jail is is just disgusting absolutely appalling and and now we've lost a tremendously valuable and talented human being while the plea bargain deal for only several months behind bars was reportedly a possible outcome the internet freedom crusader refused to be seen as a felon his family and supporters blame the prosecution's aggressive attempts to

put swartz behind bars for his suicide this man a young man and his family were literally terrorized by the prosecutors and the judicial discretion that let this case go forward and not stop while authorities dubbed him a criminal supporter say he was a robin hood in the fight for freedom of information aaron swartz was a prodigy at fourteen he helped write the are assessed specific ation an online syndication system that allows users to consolidate feeds from numerous blog sites automatically instead of having to check each website individually the program is now part of the common vocabulary of the internet and is used on a daily basis for publishing news stories from all over the world critics say u.s. officials wanted aaron sent down to set an example he was going up against policy and he knew it but he thought he would be in the clear in the law because he was only spreading public domain documents instead swartz. case has made an example of

how seriously the internet is regulated in the us the laws under which he was indicted date back to one thousand nine hundred eighty four many believe they're long outdated the prison sentences needed to be relaxed especially for supposed crimes like this where there was no economic motive where there was no way for him to profit even if they said even if he did all the things he did so they said new legislation dubbed aram's law has been proposed in the u.s. congress it's still unclear whether there will be any real change but what is clear is that it once again took a tragedy to galvanize national debate and stasia churkin a party new york still to come in the program to windowing support as israelis and to the polls tuesday look into why the country's prime minister binyamin netanyahu is losing many of its former voters. lots of political opponents slam britain's prime minister david cameron for dodging the e.u.

issue when we get again delays his long awaited speech on the u.k.'s future role within the union these stories and much more coming up after a break. well . it's technology innovations all the developments around russia. the future covered. if you're. going to take three. course green. green. green. green. yellow three brown video for your media project free media to our t.v. dot com.

here with our live from moscow friday pakistan's government and muslim cleric to hear qadri agreed on friday to bring an end to mass protests in islamabad tens of thousands of his supporters ended a sit in against widespread corruption and unemployment after contre convinced the authorities to dissolve parliament in march and voting should take place within ninety days the government also agreed to discussions on a like old reform five years demand that the army helped set up in term of

ministration was rejected another sign of a deepening political crisis was the government's response with the supreme court its order to arrest the prime minister over corruption allegations was met. holly journalist and a former pakistan air force officer says a change of power could be looming. people likening it to the square and so many other things but my personal feeling is that in all those uprisings there was not a single leader around home people could rally but over here they have in the shape of a llama the whole cadre but there have been actually two or three different theories about the background of this man some say that because of his canadian nationality and because of his longer stay in the west he may have been one motivated as well as funded by the west there is another theory that he may be a stooge of the military the fact is that whoever has launched this particular

person has done his homework because if the man has captured the spirit and imagination of a people. the feeling that they were down drug did and they were driven against of all because of bad governance because of the peril situation because of lack of energy lack of food and lack of jobs people are joining him in flocks and even those who are double minded are now trying to make sure that it matters if history has to change of this country. countries anti government slogans jevon by the discontent over corruption in florida electoral system included calls for resolution actually spoke exclusively to the protest leader who told us exactly what he means. when i say revolution we should keep in your mind in egypt in tunis in libya and all these countries. we needed a dictatorship for years and years for a long time. and the people stood up against that in iran there was when eric here

rule of shan shah the people stood up against that. stanek is bit different. there is no one else who neither monadic elul nor a military dictatorship here is electoral authority to regain its electoral dictatorship true democracy does not exist in this society neither in political field nor in social feed nor economic field not democracy so this is a lot less and less total chaos and anarchy in this country government is totally dysfunctional. saw that this is the single nation single country in the whole muslim world and in nuclear capability and if the same situation continues there could be a very big disaster if we could come to the level of collapse so out of this martin movement is anti corruption to educate our society from corruption and this is need of the whole muslim world the whole third world and developing muslim countries the

have to get rid of corruption and corrupt leaders. well mine right now for you from conference beach was political leader. after an assassination storms the state's take a look at that it's soon overpowered the whole thing was caught on video and you can watch it on our t. . and a sandstorm russia's kamaz trucks dominate the podium at the twenty third team dakar rally for details on that story and much more ahead on our web site. israel will elect its part of the moment in two days' time and prime minister benjamin netanyahu is predicted to come out on top yet many israelis today don't think he's being radical enough policy or reports why many of netanyahu is right

wing allies are changing their minds he's the surprise success story in campaign one twin millionaire who says a palestinian state would be suicide for israel enough to be bennett used to work for prime minister netanyahu but now he's working at taking supporters away from him like this man who used to be a diehard supporter of netanyahu so he could party until these elections world around the likud is. a bus full of right wing members of knesset with a lift wing person driving the bus. as far as being i mean. even though i am opposed to it. i would say most members of the likud obviously is for it the irony is that while the world sees netanyahu as a white leader at home he's losing face among supporters for not being focused enough this is part of the right wing campaign he's up against there are some

things we all know one never happen and the sopranos will never return for another season ramiele climbs the line with a marker on our pro and a peace agreement with the palestinians will not happen promises like this have been a jewish home party in food position it's poised to take more than twelve percent of parliamentary seats analysts say netanyahu while still expected to serve another term is running scared he's up his rhetoric i say in the most clear of terms the western wall is not occupied territory i don't care what the un says we will build in jerusalem because it's our right not on your hands we could list has grown even more right wing with radicals like this woman high up in the pecking order. but the league would be to no party is a party with values the state of israel is a state of the jews whose internal capital is you're also. but what would be the implications of such rhetoric after the elections many

israelis are asking themselves about the day after while netanyahu become more rightwing and risk drawing israel into conflicts with its neighbors or when he backed down and risked losing face among his supporters. is hoping for the latter that netanyahu will listen to world opinion and reach a compromise with the palestinians he knows all too well what the current cycle of violence can bring speakers daughter was killed in a suicide bombing seventeen years ago. that we don't have unfortunately in the center and the left. a leader who is significantly charismatic to lead this country and give its people hope the left is also divided but i do think netanyahu will find a way to compromise because of world pressure but that compromise won't come easy enough to the bennett solution to the israeli palestinian conflict is to annex most of the west bank while allowing palestinians limited self rule in the west and while that might not seem a plausible idea to most of the international community it's exactly what his

constituency wants to hear a fact in a time yahoo is acutely aware of policy on television. well the election campaign in israel is drawing to an end if israelis were to cast their votes today let's take a look at what possibly the knesset would look like this is just according to polls the jerusalem post in fact took these polls let's look at the front runner of course which green which would be i should say netanyahu the coup party they would get according to this poll thirty four seats but like paula was just reporting they could have had much more seats seventeen seats are predicted for the labor party and the far right jewish home run by israel's rising political star who we just heard about and that's now whose former ally tuffy bennett has surged into third place as you can see and it's his party which is expected to get ten seats ten more seats i should say as opposed to their previous three seats again this is just

according to polls we will continue to watch what's happening in israel and our team will be closely following the election on the twenty second of january giving you in-depth coverage. how will tensions with to run develop will settle the expansion isolate can there be peace with gaza what's next in relations with america we'll let you know who survive his snuff election on january twenty second . israel decides what archly. in other news british prime minister david cameron this week again postponed a crucial speech on his country's future relations with the european union excerpts from this speech which were released and they give a little away other than they give little away i should say other than the fact that the pm and this is very important believes the e.u. must address to talent is immediately otherwise he believes the union will fail and britain could drift towards an exit and the leader of the u.k.

independence party told us that leaving the e.u. was never on cameron's agenda does he think he's using the euro skeptic language to pursue a euro agenda in this speech is happening because of the rise of you in the rise of using it as led me for a massive discontent on the back benches in the house of commons and amongst the conservative party of the whole country and that's what he's responding to what the reality of what he says if you read the subtext is that the e.u. is very good for us but it serves our interests and i will promise i promise god to do my best over the next five years to do everything i can to keep britain a member of that you've made this issue is a key constitutional issue it isn't even about economics it's about who governs britain it's about i'll be dependent nation as a democracy and determine their own future not a classic scare tactics always employed by the status quo whether they're defending slavery or the cold or e.u. membership three million british jobs will be lost if we left the european union

really europe is aging europe as a percentage of the world economy is now below a fifth and falling quite sharply it is gripped by eurozone crisis which is likely because of their fanaticism to keep it together to last for up to a decade and yeah ok europe is thirty eight percent of our overseas exports and it's an important market place but the rest of the world is even more important to us. because we're stuck inside this old fashioned nineteenth century concept of a customs union we cannot make our own trade deals anywhere else in the world let's have a free trade deal with europe like the swiss do and let's reengage with the rest of the world. and while euro skepticism is on the rise in britain the e.u.'s economic stronghold germany appears to be harboring concerns over its sovereignty as well as artie's peter oliver found out. there's a rising feeling here in germany that it's not the germans who were really in charge of their country. the government has taken the sovereign rights of the

german people and given them away to bureaucrats in brussels specifically with regards to currency this is a painful injury to the sovereignty of germany the issue is said to be fought out in the e.u.'s second tightest court this group calling themselves the civil coalition movement want to stop germany's fiscal future being decided by the european central bank particularly how much german cash goes to the eurozone countries and set the prep to democracy because it's no longer the governments who have to make a policy but is the european central central bank deciding which policy is paid for over five thousand people back their petition as they look to challenge one of the most common pieces of perceived wisdom in europe that germany is the success story in the eurozone there was no other country which had so little benefits out of the euro if you come to look to the numbers according to their legal team those numbers

showed germany being forced to pay for the euro zone countries despite this not being part of the deal when the single currency was created finance isn't the only place where germans feel a grip is slipping one former german foreign minister gave different reasons why they may be issues with sovereignty suggesting that they have their root in the memory of the country's past but sometimes we shy back from our responsibility as our room states this is a problem not that we are pressed from the outside the defense is also a concern for those who believe germany is losing control of its sovereignty the country is still home to nato bases over twenty years after the end of. cold war germany today faces no major military threats nor does any european state and that's why this gigantic military machine that the americans have built up is

completely anachronistic there appear to be historical cultural and economic reasons why some germans feel less sovereignty is disappearing and for a group of lawyers getting ready for their legal battle with the european central plank twenty thirteen look set to be an important year and what they see is the fight to return german rule to the german people these are all of the arty belin. and the rounds nuclear negotiations still going nowhere this week factors tom broke down with no agreement but the western sanctions put a further drain on struggling citizens a week before shortly. but syria real for after tuesday's violence that killed dozens of people at a university campus in aleppo with both sides blaming each other and now it's with an opinion on that after a break. yet

another tragic shooting right on the streets of the capital is again cause to open the gun debate across the nation now all the talking heads are saying that you got to take away the guns to be safe well the problem is that the shooting happened right on the streets of the capital of a country where the guns have already been taken away paris france three kurdish women one of whom was a kurdish separatist party co-founder were shot dead the scene of the crime was right outside of a curse institute which leads the police to think that it was an assassination you see when it comes to terrorism drug cartels in the mafia you can make all the gun laws that you want but the bad guys will still have plenty of guns because they live outside the law al qaeda and mexican drug cartels don't go to the stores and patiently wait for their background checks to be done before they buy their guns taking away all the guns through legal means won't matter there will still be murder.